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Univ. of Oregon Library E'JSKIE, 0S2'J0:J THE BEND BULLETIN WEATHER Fair with snow higher levals; high 33-18; lows 30-25. TEMPERATURES Hlg!, yaittrday, 41 degrees. Lew last night, 17 digim, Sunset today, 4:33. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:3. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 60th Year Twelve Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Thursday, December 27, 1962 Ten Cents No. 18 o O Nikita West Germans in new blast MOSCOW (UPD- Premier Ni kita Khrushchev accused West Germany today of trying to in ', crease tensions between the , United States and the Soviet Un ion, "endangering Die lives of mil Eons of people." Khrushchev made his charge in a letter to West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer. It was In reply to a communication of protest from Adenauer following the shooting last Aug. 17 of Peter Fechter, 18, an East German youth who bled to death along the Berlin Wall in a futile attempt - to escape to the west. ' Adenauer had urged Khrush ' chev to help stop such incidents. In his reply, broadcast by Mos cow Radio, Khrushchev blasted ' Adenauer for allegedly following .war policy, called again for a German peace treaty, and re ' newed charges that the West was ' guilty of espionage and sub ' version against East Germany. 'Hardly Jibes' . (In Washington, a State Depart , ment spokesman said Wednesday British train collision toll stands at 18 LIVERPOOL, England (UPD "Rescue teams struggling in snow and bitter cold laid aside littered ' toys and Christmas wrappings to day in their efforts to free the . victims from a holiday train col lision that was the British Rail j ways' worst accident in five ! years. The death loll from the crash Wednesday night stood at 18, with more than 60 injured. Officials saii many of the injured were I near death. i Names of the victims were (withheld pending notification of ; relatives, but a U.S. serviceman was reported to be among the idead. i The collision happened after - dark in a snow storm at the near by hamlet of Minhsull Vernon, about 150 miles northwest of Lon don. The speeding "Mid-Day Snri" evnress from Glasgow to London, loaded with families re linnino hnrrw after the Christmas ' holidays, plowed into the rear of another passenger train standing : at a junction. j All of the dead and injured jwere in the rear cars of the ' standing train. j Four young children were ''; among those killed by the terrific impact which sent the engine of the express telescoping into the coaches of the waiting Liverpool-to-Birmingham train. Torn Christmas packages and shreds of gift wrapping paper lit tered the snow beside the wreck age. Teddy bears and the scat tered cars of a toy train lay near one coach. The cause of the accident was not immediately determined, al though visibility was bad at the time. Britain has had unusual wintry weather the past several days. British Railways ordered an investigation at the scene. It was the worst crash on the state-owned British Railways since 90 persons died in a pile up near Lewisham, in suburban London, in 1937. 'Perfect' strike develops cracks NEW YORK (UPD Cracks developed in the "perfect" Long shoremen's strike today. In Galveston. Tex., and Charleston, S.C., two foreign-flag freighters were able to discharge their highly perishable banana cargoes Wednesday despite the claim of the International Long shoremen's Association ILA that its picket lines were 100 per cent effective. In most ports from Maine to Texas, hoover, the five-day strike by 75,000 ILA members continued to keep general cargo tied up on piers or in holds of ships. Bananas were taken off the Swedish vessel Brida Thornden at Galveston by 150 members of an independent union who defied the ILA pickets' shouted threats. No incidents were reported as the independent stevedores prepared to finish unloading the 50.000 boxes today. scores that Moscow's current spy scare "hardly jibes" with Khrushchev's recent calls for better U.S. -Soviet relations in the wake of the Cu ban crisis. The Soviet press, ra dio and television have been filled with accusations of espionage by U.S. Embassy personnel, a Brit ish businessman, a West German woman and at least one Russian official. The Soviet government en dorsed the spy charges against the Americans Wednesday, and the embassy and State De partment promptly denied them.) Speaking of the Cuban crisis, Khrushchev told Adenauer: "You tried to corner us so that there would be no way out but conflict. The Caribbean caused only annoyance for you which you expressed in a recent statement." Casting Shadow He odded that Adenauer had "tried to cast a shadow" between the United States and the Soviet Union and had tried to hamper a fruitful exchange of opinions. Khrushchev pointed out that Ad enauer had lived through two world wars and asked: "Do you sock a third world war?" "If war is launched under your initiative," Khrushchev said, "the Federal German Republic will burn out like a candle in t h e first hours of war." Khrushchev told Adenauer that "By your policy of intensifying tensions and prodding the world to new conflicts, you are endan gering the lives of millions of people." He said most people in the world now realize that thermo nuclear war is intolerable. He then pointed to recent calls for peace by Pope John XXIII, "I am a Communist and an atheist," Khrushchev said, "and naturally I carmot-share the phil osophic views of the Roman Pope. Supports Peace Call "But I support and approve his call for peace. You, on the other hand, a zealous Catholic, who rec ognizes tiie spiritual leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, should have, apparently, heeded with particular attention to the appeal of its head." Khrushchev said it now was more necessary than ever to work for peace. He said West Germany had "absolutely no rights in West Ber lin." He added a German peace treaty should be signed to nor malize the situation there, liqui date the outdated occupation re gime, and put troops in the city under a United Nations flag. He said "no blackmail can stop" an eventual peace settlement, and said that officials of the Bonn gov ernment who visit Berlin carry on vicious and dangerous provoca tions against the cause of peace and the security of the neighbor ing socialist countries." New vote due on bond plan BEAVERTON (UPD District No. 48 school board members Wednesday night agreed to re submit a $1.9 million bond issue to the voters in February. The bond money would finance construction of a new junior high school. The measure, along with two others, were defeated by voters earlier this month. The other measures would have provided funds for alterations at Beaverton High School and Cafe teria construction. T'.e board said Census board puts Deschutes county population at 24,303 By Phil F. Brogan Bullttln Staff Wrlttr The 1962 population of Deschutes county has been placed at 24.303. an increase of 1.203 over the fed eral census of I960, the State Board of Census has announced. Both Redmond and Bend con tributed to the county's popula tion increase, with Jefferson coun- I ty and its incorporated towns. Ma idras, Metolius and Culver, lead- ing the parade of area and state gains. j Jefferson county's increase 'over the 1960 census, a whopping 1 38 5 per cent, was tops for the en jtire state. The population of Me jtolius increased from 270 to 314, and that of Culver from 301 to 359. I Madras was credited with 1.738 jresidents in 1962, a gain from No'Uihhour' decision due forJeannace SALEM (UPD There will be no "eleventh hour decisions" re garding child slayer Jeannace June Freeman w4io is slated to be executed Jan. 29, Gov. Mark Hatfield said today. "I will make my decisions known in plenty of time," he said. The governor expects soon to receive an official plea for com mutation of Miss Freeman's death sentence to life imprison ment. Hatfield said he was still study ing the lengthy transcript of Miss Freeman's trial. He said "I have read every letter on the case," and said he had received some letters from foreign countries. Miss Freeman, 21, would be the first woman executed in Oregon's history. She was convicted of throwing a six-year-old boy to his death in the Crooked River Gorge last year. Factors gave to JFK campaign fund WASHINGTON (UPD John (Jake tiie Barber) Factor and his wife contributed $22,000 to the Kennedy presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee in I960 and 1961, con gressional records showed today. Factor was given a Christmas pardon by President Kennedy from a 1943 fraud conviction. The action will quash current depor tation proceedings against him. Factor contributed $10,000 to two Democratic campaign groups in 1960 and $2,000 to the national committee last year, according to reports filed with the House of Representatives. His wife, Rella, contributed $10,000 to the two campaign groups in 1960. In Palm Beach, Fla., where Kennedy is on holiday. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said of the Factor campaign contribution: "I don't know anything about it." Spokesman Comments A spokesman for Factor, a Beverly Hills, Calif., real estate operator, said Wednesday that Factor had made contributions to both the Democratic and Repub lican parties, but "I do not recall how much." The Republican National Com mittee said Factor was not on its list of contributors of $500 or more, but that this did not rule out smaller contributions. A check on several large voluntary groups that backed former Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon in the 1960 campaign did not show any Factor contributions. The clerk's records showed Oct. 4, 1960, contributions of $5,000 each from Factor, listed at 1185 Loma Linda Dr., Beverly Hills, and Rella Factor, listed at 1184 Loma Linda Dr., to the Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson Committee. The 1960 report from the Na tional Committee of Business and Professional Men and Women for Kennedy - Johnson also showed Dec. 16 contributions of $5,01)0 each from Factor at 9683 Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills and Rella Factor at the Loma Linda Dr. address. The Monica Blvd. number is the former address of a real estate firm with which Factor is associated. Going in mail SALEM (UPD Delivery of 570.000 state income tax forms be gan Wednesday, the State Tax Commission announced. The forms are not addressed to individuals, but are mailed to every address in the state, the commission said. Deadline for filing state income tax returns is April 15. 1.515 in the 1960 federal census figure. Construction work now under way in the Pacific General Elec tric's multimillion dollar dam on the Deschutes river just west of Madras is credited for the Jef ferson county population gain. Second in population increase in the state was Sherman, with an increase of 18.1 per cent. A con struction boom at the John Day Dam is credited with the big gain in Sherman's population. Bend's 1962 population is listed as 12.158, 19 per cent up from the federal figure of 11.936 in 1960. Redmond s population gain in the two-year period was 4.8 per cent, up from 3.340 to 3.492. The population of Sisters, 602, re mains unchanged from the I960 federal census figure. Wards plans new order office here By Ha S. Grant Bullitln Stiff Wrlttr Construction of a new building for the Montgomery Ward Order Office, at 812 Wall Street, is ex pected to get under way about the middle of March, and be rea dy for occupancy in late May or early June. The business will be moved to temporary quarters in the Hoover Building, on Bond Street, shortly after the first of the year, and razing of the pres ent building on Wall Street will get under way within the month. The new building will be erect ed by the construction and main tenance department of the First National Bank of Oregon, which manages the property jointly with an agency. Owners are the heirs of the late Robert W. Sawyer and the late Tcrrence H. Foley, including Circuit Judge Robert H. Foley, Mrs. Alice C. Foley and Mrs. Robert W. Sawyer of Bend. They also own the corner lot on Wall and Franklin, occupied since 1934 by a Standard Oil Co. station, and the building east of the alley on Franklin Avenue. De velopment of these properties is also included in the over-all plan, according to Robert E. Marcy of Portland, head of the bank's trust department. Figures Given The Montgomery Ward building will be a $35,000 construction proj ect, not including removal of the present building. It will be ap proximately 25 feet wide and 141 feet deep, with some 1.152 square feet of enclosed sales and display area. The other 2,373 square feet will be taken up with stock stor age space, office and rest rooms. Plans are being prepared by Robert C. Mention and Robert Stearns of a local architecture firm. Mention said today that working drawings will be started as soon as negotiations are com Dlcted. and that the job may be readv for bid by the lirst oi March. The exterior walls will be of masonry block, with a facada of glass window-wall with ia wood marquee. The entrance wfll be re cessed, toward the Franklin Ave nue corner, detailed with a ma sonry block column and landscap ed. Use of the present service sta tion space for parking is a pos sibility. The interior walls will be most ly covered with pegboard display devices and movable shelving. One wall will be stucco, the other exposed block. Once Bulletin Home The building housing Montgom ery Ward was once the home of The Bend Bulletin, and the pres ent tenants have occupied it since The Bulletin building was finish ed in 1941. At one time The Bulle tin also occupied the Franklin Avenue building. It will be re modeled to the specifications of a suitable tenant or tenants, Mar cy said. C. P. Patterson, a Redmond contractor, will prepare the Hoo ver Building for Montgomery Ward's temporary occupancy. General renovating, including painting and installation of new lighting, is planned. There is a possibility that the Wall Street building will be razed by a salvage firm, which would keep the project within the estab lished budget, Marcy said. The Hoover Building is owned by Myrl Hoover of Bend and Los Altos Hills, Calif. It also houses the law offices of Cash Perrine anu Wayne M. Thompson. COLLECTIONS REPORTED SALEM (UPD Collections by the welfare recovery division of the State Department of Justice totaled $60,901 for November, Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said to day. Thornton said $58,533 was col lected for child support and $2,367 in welfare fraud. Crook county's 1962 population, placed at 8.686, is 7.9 under that of the federal census, 9,430. How ever, in the two-year period, the population of PrinevuMe has slightly increased, from 3,263 to 3,293. Despite much-heralded develop ments, such as Christmas Lake, the population of Lake county has dropped from 7,158 to 6,536, or -8.4 per cent. The population of Oregon was 1.825,138 on July 1, 1962. the Ore- eon State Board of Census esti. mates. This represents an in crease of 56.451 over the federal census of April 1, 1960. Sixteen of Oregon's counties lost population since 1960, the new tabulation indicates. Clatsop suf fered the heaviest loss in popula- Uon, down 14 per oenU Sehtives of invadeirs araw ion END OVER Stolen pickup truck surprisingly received only moderate damage after Bend youths flipped it during wild police chase Wednesday afternoon through west side residen tial district. Two boys were given hospital treatment for minor Injuries and then lodged in city jail on charges of theft. Pickup Is property of Larry L. Morris, Bend resident. Holiday deaths in Europe soar LONDON (UPD Holiday deaths in Icy Europe soared to day into the hundreds. At least 250 persons were known dead since last weekend and- reports from many nations Were incomplete and unofficial. The toll jumped Wednesday night when at least 18 persons were killed in a collision between a speeding express and a stand ing train near Liverpool, Eng land. The accident happened dur ing a snow storm. i Some parts of England reported their coldest Christmas since the turn of the century. For London, with temperatures down to 29 de grees, it was the coldest Yule since 1944. The unusual wintry conditions in Europe extended even to the normally balmy areas of Italy, France and Spain along the Med iterranean. Some ski resorts in the Alps were cut off from the outside for extended periods. Britain led the traffic toll, with 97 persons killed in auto crashes during the four-day period ending with Christmas Day. London's heaviest snow of the winter blanketed the city Wednes day night. Freezing temperatures hit most of Spain, causing severe damage to the country s vital citrus crops. Barcelona's worst storm in 50 years covered the city with about three feet of snow. Rain, cold and snow plagued Rome's Christmas. Six-foot snow drifts piled up at ski resorts near the Italian capital. Storms were reported all over Italy, and on Sicily and Sardinia. Forty traffic deaths were re ported In Italy by Wednesday night. Holiday deaths in France as of Wednesday night totaled 40. The snow and ice froze Hol land's canals, lakes and ditches, bringing out crowds of skaters. Thirteen skaters drowned when ice broke. Two persons froze to death in Lisbon, which had its coldest Christmas of the century. 4-alarm blaze fought at Sandy SANDY (UPD A four-alarm blaze early today leveled a quar ter block section of the downtown area and firemen said it endan gered a dynamite magazine a block away at one time during the fire. A general store building and a large frame residence were de stroyed by the fire. Fire equip ment fiom four other departments was called in to assist, Clacka mas County officers said. The fire alarm was sounded at 4:54 a m., and firemen reported the fire under control at 5:55 a.m. Firemen were continuing to wet down the dynamite magazine and several other buildings in the area to guard against a possible ex plosion. There was no immediate esti mate of loss. Admit wine drinking Youths spill stolen pickup ufter chose By Gerald Drapeau Bulletin Staff Writer " A stolen pickup truck, chased by police at high speeds through the west side district, was final ly cornered late yesterday aft ernoon after it leaped a curb stone at W. Second and Saginaw and cartwheeled over on its top. Two young Bend boys, after taking hospital treatment, were lodged in city jail on charges of car theft. Arrested were Brian T a b e r Hall, 15, 1214 Jacksonville, and Michael Steve Allen, 15, 1604 W. Second. The accident climaxed a dra matic chaso after a city police man spotted the vehicle about 5:30 p.m. traveling at high speeds at the Galveston-Harmon inter section. Tho officer followed the vehicle which sometimes sped Many skafers furn out fo try new rink Hundreds of oldsters, young sters and "in-betweens" flocked to Juniper Park Wednesday night to ice skate on the Rotary Club's new athletic area. The 85 by 185-foot flooded con crete slab was really packed, and city recreation director Vi n c c Genna reported " everyone had a ball." "I don't think anyone would have been able to fall down it was that crowded," Genna added. Because of the huge crowd and warmer temperatures, the ice started breaking up pretty bad and skating was shut off at 8:30 p.m. The area was sprayed Jast night, but, since the temperature dropped to a low of only 28, there was no skating today. "Whether or not there'll be skating tonight will depend on the weather," Genna said. 'The sig nal will be the flood lights. "If the lights arc on, we'll eith er be working or skating will be available. INCENTIVE TO WIN LONDON (UPD Bedworth Bennion, 25, a human "polar bear" who won the 99U1 swim in Serpentine Lake, said he was mo tivated by the thought that "the quicker I swim the sooner I'll be out of this. The air temperature at race time was 33 degrees. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 630.56, off 1.08; 20 railroads 139 93, off 0.67; 15 utili ties 128.38, up 0 04, and 65 stocks 228 37, off 0 43. Sales today were about J 67 million shares compared with 3 37 million shares Wednesday. lay oS Pigs through the residential district at an estimated 60 miles per hour. The truck flipped during an at tempted left turn from Second on to Saginaw. Gather at Scane Residents gathered at the scene, and the officer managed to pry one door open of the overturned pickup to let Michael Allen out. The driver, Brian Hall, was ap parently disabled inside. While the officer was calling for an am bulance, Hall crawled out the open door and pulled a knife from inside his shirt. The officer threw the boy to the ground, tossed the knife out of reach, and handcuff ed him. Both boys complained of pains and were taken to St. Charles Memorial Hospital. In recounting a series of Inci dents leading to the crash, police said the boys admitted drinking from a stolen quart bottle of wine before they stole the car. Two boys who were with Hail and Al len when the wine was stolen lett them after they had taken the pickup and were "joyriding" with it throughout the city, one oi tne boys, a 13-year-old. admitted he stole the bottle of wine from Uie Congress Market. The other boy was 14 years of age. Both young er boys were charged with theft and released to their parents. They will be turned over to juve nile authontics. Confesses fo Theft Police reported that Hall con fessed to the theft of at least three cars In recent weeks. He ad mitted stealing a pickup truck in Rrdmond and ditching it outside et Bend. Hall. Allen and one of the younger boys involved have been under supervision ot tne prona tion officer at MacLarcn School for Boys. Hall and Allen were lodged in city jail at the request of the probation officer. The stolen pickup truck was tne rronertv of Larry L. Morris, 216 Miller. His vehicle received mod erate damago in the accident. Weather tailored both for skiers, stay-at-homes Today's weather forecast ap parently was tailored for both the skiers and the slay-at-nomes "Fair, with snow in the moun tains" reads the prediction for the Bend area. Low clouds were drift ing over the Cascades this morn ing while bright, cool sunshine was general in Bend, Redmond and the plateau country to the east. No snow was falling in the Cas cades this morning, but apparent ly a mountain storm is on its way in from the Pacific. Cool weather is expected to con tinue, with lows tonipht in the 20 28 bracket. Bend lost night enjoy ed a comparatively mild night, with a low of 27 degrees. EJL Seasickness, measles fail o quell joy PORT EVERGLADES, Fla. (UPD Joyous relatives of tha Bay of Pigs invaders arrived to day in the ship that took a ran som cargo to Cuba. They wore their Sunday best and ignored an outbreak of measles and seasick ness that marred the crossing. ' One little fellow roamed tha decks and greeted everyone with the same salute: 1 "Hello Kennedy." The black-hulled freighter Afri can Pilot looked like a wartime hospital ship with a big Red Cross emblazoned on its side as tug boats nudged it into the wharf ending a 14-hour, 10-minute voy age from Havana. The passenger ailments included nine cases of suspected German measles. Helped Down Gangplank . Among the first to debark waa Mrs. Felicia Hernandez Fernan dez. She was helped down tha steep, 50-foot gangplank because she has a heart aument. What is really wrong with me," she told a man at nor el bow, "is that I want to take oS my girdle." ' Carlos Fernandez del vane. it. brother of one of the invaders. Eric dclv Valle, 22, shied away from a table filled with sand, wiches, apples, pears and milk. "I'm too seasick to eat. I'll jus take an apple, graclas," he said. The sickness aboard the vessel, however, was not severe enough for the African Pilot to be quar antined, tha Red Cross said. Three" ambulances waited at dockside to carry the sick to hospitals. Be sides the nine communicable dis ease cases, there wore two other persons requiring medical treat ment. . Sick with Excitement Tho passengers, mostly women and children, were in many cases literally sick with excitement at their unexpected opportunity to escape the Cuba of Fidel Castro and get to tho United States. The ship that brought them bacK was tne same one mac wok a shipment of the ransom supplies to Cuba to buy the freedom of captives taken 20 months ago dur ing the abortive attempt to storm Cuban shores by an Invasion force. Crowds lined downtown harbor- side streots, some of the Cubans shouting "Cuba si, Yanqui no," but others openly cheering. A Red Cross official armouncea a count of 213 men, 467 women and 242 children among the pas sengers, a total of 922, but Cuban authorities said 1,004 boarded tha vessel. Authorities on board said either count could be a few pas sengers off. Processing of the passengers by Immigration, customs and public health authorities was expected to take about two and one-half hours here, after which the. relative! were to travel by bus to Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, about 25 miles south, for a mass re union with Uie 1,113 invasion pris oners who wore airlifted to Flor ida Sunday and Monday. Vow To Fight Again The ransomed prisoners al ready have vowed to fight again on Cuba's beaches to topple Fidel Castro. Five of them plus a member of the families commit tee which arranged their ransom wcro to meet with President Ken nedy in Palm Beach this after noon, but their mission in re questing to sec Uie President waa not disclosed. There were reports in Miami that another 2,500 Cubans related to the prisoners were waiting for their chance to leave their coun try for exile in the United States. Also still in Cuba, but appar ently with a chance of being freed, are 21 Americans jailed for various cliargcs. Prisoner ne gotiator James B. Donovan said when he returned Monday night that Castro had given him a firm pledge on early release of tha Americans, pending further dis cussions on which Donovan de clined to elaborate. ANCHOR ASHTRAYS LONDON (UPD The Civil Service Clerical Union urged to day that ashtrays in the National Assistant (welfare) Board offices be anchored securely to desks. It said that every year about 70 angry welfare applicants hurl ashtrays at assistance clerks. .